John Warnock famous quotes

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
-- John Warnock

#Communication #Thinking #People

What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.
-- John Warnock

#Technology #People #Trying

We started the company out of frustration with the employer that we had because we were building great stuff and there was no way that this stuff was ever going to get into the hands of the people who could use it
-- John Warnock

#Frustration #Hands #People

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.
-- John Warnock

#Technology #Thinking #People

I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative
-- John Warnock

#Way #Limits #Conservative

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.
-- John Warnock

#Communication #Technology #Needs

I'm a pretty happy camper. Look a little more like Paul Newman, maybe. Haha.
-- John Warnock

#Looks #Haha #Littles

I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very high, dense level.
-- John Warnock

#Team #Believe #Two

What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development workers? And we asked the development workers, what are your reservations about religious leaders? It turns out that most of the problems are not really problems at all, but rather misunderstandings, misconceptions, and mis-communications.

Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.